I should have been more explicit and I also referenced the wrong person.
You don't have to say anything more than once - I get it. Sometimes, though, given the hundreds of DUC posts I'm not able to give every one of them the amount of attention it needs. The comments about someone being surprised that no one from Avid has chimed in is one of the reasons I wanted to at least put
something in this thread, though I think, in hindsight, that it was premature.
SteveBoker had it right regarding the H/W Insert Delay in this post:
http://duc.avid.com/showpost.php?p=1711016&postcount=30
Now, unless I'm mistaken, that should work for you. Yes, I know you're NOT using inserts, but we're just doing this as a workaround. I should have been more clear on that.
And, yes, the ability to manually compensate for delays has not been fully implemented yet, for various reasons.
One thing I wanted to point out is that delays in interfaces should automatically be compensated for via the ASIO or Core Audio polling that occurs at driver level and the only manual compensation that should be needed is when you have an external device in your recording chain that's inducing additional delays.
I did want to point something out, though - you say:
The RME is your interface you're using for Pro Tools, correct? If so, it should automatically be compensated for
as long as it's reporting it's correct delays via the ASIO or Core Audio driver. The
only delay you should have to compensate for is for the device(s) between the microphone and the RME. Is that what you're doing? The buffer in the RME, if it's the primary Pro Tools interface, is automatically compensated for.